EventBus 3 will bring a compile time processing to a avoid performance penalties

Today, we pushed quite a few commits from the last weeks to GitHub and thus it’s a good time to give an update on the progress:

Development made good progress in the last 3 months; the annotation branch now has around 100 additional commits

Much time was spent optimizing how the compile time processor passes information from the annotations to EventBus. The currently favored approach is to generate a single “index” class, which carries all the information and has to be passed to EventBusBuilder. This allows indexing jar and aars separately along with the main project.

EventBus 3 will have a changed Java package name (org.greenrobot.eventbus). This better reflects being http://greenrobot.org the official EventBus site, and also avoids conflicts if EventBus 3 is used along with EventBus 2 (e.g. an library that was not updated).

Unit tests moved to JUnit 4

Currently, EventBus 3 development is being finalized. So, stay tuned for the release.